Ricing comes from the car terminology “ricing” or “RICEing”. In the car world, RICE stands for Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancement. The term ‘rice’ is used to describe a person’s unix deskton where ‘ricing’ is when someone is custom their desktop such as the icons, panels, or system interface. When it comes to ricing a tiling window manager though, the ricing of a user’s system becomes much more involved. Basic things such as the panel bar and application launcher must be configured by the user. Ricing is the process of fully customizing the Linux operating system to suit your needs or desired appearance.
Purpose: To improve the appearance or operation of the system.
Target OS: Primarily performed on Linux systems, but other operating systems are also possible.
Preferred Linux distribution: Simpler distributions like Arch Linux are preferred as they are easier to ricing.
